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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 26m

I remember being in a record store with a friend and he said "What do you think about Moby?" What I should have said was "I liked his Bond Theme remix" but instead I said "I think he has made a lot of money."

Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 32m

My friends were really into The Prodigy but I think I always preferred their contemporaries (e.g., Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Propellerheads, etc)

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 42m

I haven't heard anyone reference that song in 20 years! I am old now.

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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 1d

I'm starting to explore {simDAG}, a nifty #rstats package that has a nice API for specifying DAGs and then simulating data from them: robindenz1.github.io/simDAG/

Simulate Data from a DAG and Associated Node Information

Simulate complex data from a given directed acyclic graph and information about each individual node. Root nodes are simply sampled from the specified distribution. Child Nodes are simulated according...

robindenz1.github.io

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 1d

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 48m

I don't have any clue whether he will win his lawsuit or not because I am not a lawyer, but they're not even doing a good job pretending he violated any policies. The logic they apply here works equally well for writing a nasty review of the latest Taylor Swift album.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 23h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2d

This is how I found out I misspelled jus soli again. Again! I never get it right.

Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2d

Even if you would want to live in a country that doesn't experience changes in ethnic composition (I don't!) and you could reconcile the ethics of it (I can't!) you still have to identify the the "in-group". At best, it would fail. At worst, it would succeed.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2d

The other issue is that jus sanguinis without jus solis implies that there is an "in-group" (not officially but usually a de-facto ethnic group), that gets to be a part of a country and others are not given the same consideration. It's a way of limiting demographic change.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2d

jus sanguinis is favored by countries that have diasporas and where it's a new country and you want to bring people in quickly. That described Germany (and I think Italy) pretty well at their founding. At some point it becomes much more illogical. jus solis is a blunt instrument but it is rational.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2d

Unless you decide to just shut the doors entirely, this ranges from unfair (some immigration streams are more likely to get citizenship than others) to unworkable (you have to process a person when they are born anyway, doing it later is a mess).

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2d

After reading through it, I found it very hard to make the argument that jus sanguinis (right of blood) is a good or even ethical solution without jus solis (right of soil). Without jus solis you have to make decisions about every single person born in a country.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2d

Several years ago I read--for reasons that are hard to explain--Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. It's academic, so it's not an *easy* read but it's not especially hard either. It does a great job of breaking down jus solis vs jus sanguinis.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 6d

There was a period of my life when I wanted to be just like Hahrie Han. I still kind of do. This is richly deserved.

Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 6d

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

hub.jhu.edu

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · Sep 9

The guys who automated petard production: OMG! You're never going to guess what we've been hoisted by!

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 7d

Check out "Number of people in household"

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 8d

Not only can you pass on your genetics without having sex, and not only can you have sex and never have a kid, but the idea that you're removing people who are predisposed to being unhappy fundamentally misunderstands what causes unhappiness. And also, *why* these people are unhappy.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 8d

In fairness, the authors do not do this. Instead, the authors frame this in an equally crazy way: That not having sex will remove these sorts of people from the gene pool over time. And not that people who don't have sex are more unhappy because...they don't have sex.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 8d

I like how this post is framed so that never having sex leads you to do things like become more educated, and make you less likely to drink alcohol. Clearly this is all very causal.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 8d

A study of over 500,000 Brits and Australians finds that people who never have sex are more educated, less likely to use alcohol and smoke, more nervous, lonelier, and unhappier. Regions with high income inequality had more sexless residents. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Phenotypic associations of sexlessness with health, psychological, and behavioral outcomes.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 9d

RCTs work for medical research (if your sample composition is good enough, big "if") because by randomizing the individuals you are randomizing many contexts. But in behavioral and social science research the context is much broader than "your body" so its generalizability is always in question.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 9d

RCTs are as useful as the assumption that there aren't any other factors that interact with your treatment. Sample composition is a major confounder, but if people are experiencing the treatment in non-laboratory contexts any of those could also interact with the treatment.

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CSN-RÉC @csnrec.bsky.social · 13d

job

TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY

Department of Sociology, Western University

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

@westernu.ca #cdnsoci

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ceej @ceej.online · 11d

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 12d

When the people who create a graph call it a "visualization" it always looks something like this:

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